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Meet Miss Giggle!

The Center for Literacy and Deafness (CLAD) has created a variety of videos to help young children gain a foundation in American Sign Language (ASL). The short stories revolve around the daily activities of Miss Giggle and her students, while the songs teach vocabulary in a fun context. These videos are part of an early literacy intervention called Foundations for Literacy that builds foundational skills for all DHH children. The videos can be used with all children. 35 ASL Stories and 29 ASL Songs that you can view on the CLAD YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPQttd9v438zeX8Ju0RAmrg/featured

American Sign Language (ASL) Stories/Songs

National Center on DeafBlindness (NCDB) Literacy

http://literacy.nationaldb.org/

Perkins School for the Blind

Webcast: Early Literacy for Students with Multiple Disabilities or Deaf-Blindness

Microcredential: Literacy & CVI

Paths To Literacy

https://pathstoliteracy.org Welcome Parents! Overview of Literacy for Children and Youth Who Are DeafBlind

Tar Heel Reader

Tar Heel Reader is a large library of open-source, accessible, texts for individuals with disabilities of all ages. Tar Heel Reader addresses the extreme shortage of easy-to-read books on topics that appeal to older students. Books are contributed to the site by teachers, students, parents, and others from around the world. https://tarheelreader.org/

Tar Heel Shared Reader

Tar Heel Shared Reader provides free access to quality professional development, materials, and technology that support the implementation of shared reading for school-aged students with significant cognitive disabilities (SCD) who do not read connected text with comprehension above a 2nd grade level. https://www.sharedreader.org/

UNC Center for Literacy and Disability Studies

https://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds

Deaf-Blind Model Classroom Resources

https://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds/resources/deaf-blind-model-classroom-resources

Great Expectations

National Braille Press created the Great Expectations program to help parents and teachers bring picture books to life for blind children. Each book is chosen for its unique theme and is supplemented with picture descriptions and free online activities to further explore concepts found within the stories. The online activities are created especially for blind children and use a multi-sensory approach — through song, tactile play, body movement, engaged listening, and word play — all designed to promote active reading experiences for children with visual impairments.

Image of a girl and a dog reading a Braille book. — National Braille Press: Great Expectations Program

The American Society for Deaf Children’s ASL Stories Directory

This directory makes it easy for you to find hundreds of free videos of ASL retellings of your child’s favorite books. Research shows that reading and signing stories together helps promote essential literacy skills for ALL children: deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing. Use the ASL Stories Directory to quickly find stories by your child’s age or by the book’s title. Make the most of signing and reading with your child! Find stories here–by age or by title

LiveBinder: Children’s Stories in Sign Language–Susie Tiggs

Kids Stories in ASL

Children’s Stories in Sign Language

Don Johnston: Readtopia is a special education curriculum designed for teachers who work with late elementary, middle, and high school students with autism and other complex needs. It serves as an integrated comprehensive reading curriculum across several domains of study including ELA, Math, Social Studies, Life Skills, and Science. Don Johnston: Start-to-Finish Library brings many of the most important books of all time to older students reading at elementary school levels. They will not only have a wide selection of engaging books aligned to state standards, they’ll have the supports they need to fully experience the stories while building reading skills. Reading is supported with professional narration, word- and sentence-highlighting, and built-in physical accessibility features.

National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials

http://aem.cast.org/